Patterson-McInnis #3 is an oil burning Consolidation type
(2-8-0) locomotive built in 1915 by the Vulcan Iron Works in Wilkes-Barre, PA, for the Gulf Pine Company. Weighing 71,000 lbs, 63,000 lbs on its 40” drivers, it has 14” x 20” cylinders and operated at a boiler pressure of 190 psi delivering 15,825 lbs tractive effort.
The Gulf Pine Lumber Company was founded by L. H. Dupont of Poplarville, L. M. Noland of Kola and S. A. Windom also of Kola, FL, to service a mill in Poplarville bought from the bankrupt White Cedar Pile & Pole Company for $18,000. The sawmill was rebuilt and began working again in January 1922. A spur track ran north from the mill for about 2½ miles to a connection with the New Orleans & Northeastern on the south edge of Poplarville.
Four years later, the company ceased operations and the sawmill, logging railroad and equipment were sold for salvage. #3 went to the Dowling Company and then to the Patterson-McInnis Lumber Co., in Gulf Hammock, FL, who donated it to the City of Gulf Hammock in 1963. It is on display at the Gulf Hammock Wayside Park just off US 19.
